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姪
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

niece

HSK 10
Human →Relations →Family
テツ、チツ、ジチ、イツ、イチ
めい、おい
질, 절
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 至 represents the sound.
Components
女 woman+ 至 until =
姪 niece
女 Meaning component
nǚ woman
woman, girl
至 Phonetic component
zhì until
reach, arrive
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Notes
Similar Characters
佞 glib囡 one's daughter奶 milk奸 crafty她 she奼 colorful (trad)好 good妁 act as go-between妄 absurd妆 adorn (simp)妈 mama (simp)妊 conceive妍 seductive妒 jealous of妓 prostitute妖 bewitching妗 wife of mother's brother妙 wonderful妝 put on makeup (trad)妞 girl
Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Clerical
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
姪
Regular
Modern
Japanese
姪 めい 同音
noun niece
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
その姪は彼女の叔母さんのように見えます。
The niece looks like her aunt.
CHINESE WORDS (10)
侄子 [zhí​zi] #4,240
brother's son
侄女 [zhí​nǚ] #6,158
niece
侄儿 [zhí​'ér] #20,158
see 姪子|侄子[zhí​zi]
侄孙 [zhí​sūn] #50,153
grandnephew
表侄 [biǎo​zhí] #67,321
son of a male cousin via female line
堂侄 [táng​zhí] #59,382
nephew by the male line
侄女婿 [zhí​nǚ​xu] #61,252
brother's daughter's husband
侄媳妇 [zhí​xí​fu] #62,411
brother's son's wife
侄孙女 [zhí​sūn​nǚ] #63,176
grand niece
表侄女 [biǎo​zhí​nǚ] #65,639
daughter of a male cousin via female line
JAPANESE WORDS (6)
姪っ子 [めいっこ] #40,615
niece
姪御 [めいご] #62,435
(another person's) niece
甥姪 [おいめい] #132,379
nephews and nieces
姪孫 [てっそん] #140,131
grandniece
又姪 [まためい] #218,947
grandniece
令姪 [れいてつ] #268,261
your niece
KOREAN WORDS (1)
생질
sister's son; nephew